Rug cleaning
in Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale was built in a hurry. The city counted 9,829 people in 1950, 59,898 ten years later and 95,976 by 1970, most of that after Lockheed moved to town in 1956 and the orchards went under tract housing. So the bulk of what we collect here, from Cherry Chase, Ponderosa Park and the blocks around Raynor Park, comes out of low, wide single-story houses put up inside one decade: living room and dining room in a single run, a hallway of bedrooms, and hardwood or engineered board where wall-to-wall carpet used to be. That layout puts one large rug, nine by twelve or bigger, in the busiest part of the house, and it takes the whole household’s traffic in two or three lanes. Soil concentrates along those lanes and works into the base of the pile where a vacuum will not reach. We dust first, dry, on a machine that beats grit out through the back, then wash by cold immersion. Older Sunnyvale is a different job. Around the Heritage District and Murphy Avenue, named for the rancher who let the San Francisco and San Jose Rail Road cross his land in 1861, the rooms are smaller and the rugs are smaller with them: runners, hall pieces and scatter sizes that usually want edge repair more than a heavy wash.

Start by calling or texting (650) 675-8160; the line is open 8am until 8pm daily. We pick a collection slot with you then, and you hear back with the confirmed time shortly after. A nine by twelve out of a Sunnyvale ranch house is heavier than people expect once it is rolled, so two of us come for it. From there it is our own van to the workshop, our own bench, and our own van home again.